Fritz Haeg on the Sundown Salon

Fritz Haeg: The Sundown Salon started immediately when I moved in 99, I guess, and I was living on Sundown Drive that’s where the house is. It started out, I guess with a very specific thought that I was feeling very isolated in this house up in the hill in Los Angeles, coming from New York, coming from then Silver Lake which is a little bit more of a community. So, I just moved in and I felt 1) This house is ridiculous, this is needs to be more than just a place rather than work, and also I just kind of saw this intense isolation possible in a house like that, in a neighborhood like that. I think everyone experience is that to some extent in LA, which is why it has such a rich history of people gathering at homes, just sit in their house which the Mac centre from Vienna loans and rents is the best example of that from the 20s. So it started out rather casually at the beginning inviting friends over to do performances, music, things like that and as time progressed over the years they became more complicated and more highly curetted, around particular topics or themes, from knitting and making things by hand to literary salons which in more conventional sense I suppose to dance, music and video.

Question: The house is on the market. What will happen to it?

Fritz Haeg: I don’t know it depends who buys the house. There is kind of the strange thing that happens when that part of my work was so tied to a particular place and then if someone else once that place what they do, could be confuse with what I do. As you know people go there and think its part of my projects still, but I don’t know I would be totally fine if someone moved in and then do public events there anymore.

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Why do people quit their jobs? Surely, there are a ton of factors: money, hours, location, lack of interest, etc. For Alison McMahon, an HR specialist and the CEO of TwoFold, the biggest reason employees jump ship is that they're tired of working for lousy bosses.

By and large, she says, people are willing to put up with certain negatives as long as they enjoy who they're working for. When that's just not the case, there's no reason to stick around:

Nine times out of ten, when an employee says they're leaving for more money, it's simply not true. It's just too uncomfortable to tell the truth.

Whether that's true is certainly debatable, though it's not a stretch to say that an inconsiderate and/or incompetent boss isn't much of a leader. If you run an organization or company, your values and actions need to guide and inspire your team. When you fail to do that, you set the table for poor productivity and turnover.

McMahon offers a few suggestions for those who want to hone their leadership abilities, though it seems that these things are more innate qualities than acquired skills. For example, actually caring about your workers or not depending wholly on HR thinking they can do your job for you.

It's the nature of promotions that, inevitably, a good employee without leadership skills will get thrust into a supervisory position. McMahon says this is a chronic problem that many organizations need to avoid, or at least make the time to properly evaluate and assist with the transition.

But since they often don't, they end up with uninspired workers. And uninspired workers who don't have a reason to stay won't stick around for long.